Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH v5 3/3] net: reserve ports for applications using fixed port numbers

From: Octavian Purdila <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 15:27:37 +0200

On Saturday 20 February 2010 10:20:53 you wrote:

> > +unsigned long *sysctl_local_reserved_ports;
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(sysctl_local_reserved_ports);
> > +
> 
> Sorry, this looks somewhat weird, why not just export
> inet_is_reserved_local_port()?
> 

My understanding is that if we do that than we won't be able to inline 
inet_is_reserved_local_port().  And as David said previously that will have a 
significant impact on performance.